Football’s Past Revisited - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Football’s Past Revisited write by Graham Curry. This book was released on 2024-10-28. Football’s Past Revisited available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book delves into the complex, yet fascinating evolution of football. From a relatively unruly mob game played on festival days, the game was adopted, codified and 'civilised' by the major English Public Schools and then diffused into the wider society to become a codified, modern sports-form. The birth of the Football Association in 1863 in London provided compromise rules, enabling teams geographically divided by distance and football's differing interpretations to oppose each other, which marked a pivotal moment for the sport. Thereon, history records the establishment of the FA Cup, football's internationalisation, the advent of professionalism and, perhaps finally, the establishment of a national league structure, all of these developments originally taking place in the British Isles. Within this multifaceted framework, eminent sociologists and historians have attempted to wrestle with these processes. As a result, over the past two decades, researchers and academics have reached the conclusion that, although a solid grounding in the macro-history of football is required, testing the existing hypotheses and questions in the early development of the game is best explored by drilling down deeply into local studies using a micro-historical approach. Consequently, many of the chapters included in this book, on Staffordshire, Norfolk, London, Sheffield, East Lancashire, Rugby School, follow this methodology. This book is an essential read for students, scholars and academics of sports studies, history, sociology, development and management, as well as an engrossing read for anyone interested in the early history of football. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Soccer & Society.
Battle's End
Battle's End - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Battle's End write by Caroline Alexander. This book was released on 1995. Battle's End available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 9 photographs in text.
The People's Game
The People's Game - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The People's Game write by James Walvin. This book was released on 2000. The People's Game available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. First published in 1975, this 2nd edition has been completely rewritten to incorporate the findings of scholars and writers on the game over the past 20 years. It is a revealing account of football, and of broader social changes in the 20th century.
Football, Corruption and Lies
Football, Corruption and Lies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Football, Corruption and Lies write by John Sugden. This book was released on 2017-12-04. Football, Corruption and Lies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. World football is in crisis. The corruption scandal engulfing FIFA is arguably the biggest story in the history of modern sport and a watershed for sport governance. More than a decade ago, John Sugden and Alan Tomlinson laid the foundations for subsequent investigations with the publication of Badfellas, a groundbreaking work of critical sport sociology that exposed the systematic corruption at the heart of world football. It was a book that FIFA and Sepp Blatter tried to ban. Now re-issued to combine the original contents of Badfellas with new chapters covering the current crisis, this book points to the ways in which FIFA’s new administration can learn from the Blatter story. The prequel traces the course of Sugden and Tomlinson’s game-changing investigation into FIFA, while the sequel updates the FIFA story from 2002 onwards and provides a chronology of crises and scandals within the FIFA narrative. Demonstrating the vital importance of critical investigative methods in sport studies, Football, Corruption and Lies: Revisiting Badfellas, the book FIFA tried to ban is essential reading for anybody looking to understand Blatter’s rise and fall.
Mad Ducks and Bears
Mad Ducks and Bears - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mad Ducks and Bears write by George Plimpton. This book was released on 2016-04-26. Mad Ducks and Bears available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. George Plimpton's follow-up to Paper Lion, one of his personal favorites among his classic books -- repackaged and including a foreword from Steve Almond and never-before-seen content from the Plimpton archives. In Mad Ducks and Bears, George Plimpton's engaging companion to Paper Lion, Plimpton focuses on two of the most entertaining and roguish linemen and former teammates -- Alex Karras ("Mad Ducks") and John Gordy ("Bears"), both of whom went on to achieve brilliant post-football success. A more reflective, less madcap book than Plimpton's other work, Mad Ducks and Bears is no less truthful and searching. In this fond exploration of football's values and follies, Plimpton rejoins his two teammates to discuss their careers in this brutal but captivating game. The result is an astute exploration into the fascinating lives and motivations of the players at home, in the locker room, and on the field.
